Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
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The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is work.
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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